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Visions of a better world : Howard Thurman's pilgrimage to India and the origins of African American nonviolence /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dixie, Quinton Hosford
Other Authors: Eisenstadt, Peter R., 1954-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Beacon Press, [2011]
Subjects:
Thurman, Howard, > 1900-1981 > Travel > India.
Thurman, Howard, > 1900-1981 > Political and social views.
African American theologians > Biography.
African American pacifists > Biography.
African American Baptists > Biography.
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages > India > History > 20th century.
Nonviolence > Political aspects > History > 20th century.
Nonviolence > Religious aspects > Christianity.
African American Baptists > Doctrines > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
Civil rights > United States > Philosophy > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Southern boy, Morehouse man, Rochester scholar
  • Starting a career
  • Planning the pilgrimage of friendship
  • The Negro Delegation in India
  • What Thurman learned from India
  • Thurman's war and the creation of the Fellowship Church
  • Epilogue: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Jesus and the disinherited.